We've now learned a whole year of Hindi!
Wow!
Let's try another language now, how about Arabic?
This is the language spoken by hundreds of millions of people acros the world, mostly in Africa and Asia.
Arabic uses a different alphabet than English, called abjad.
It has 28 letters, and the vowels are just the consonants with small marks called diacritics above them.
Probably the biggest difference between Arabic and English is that it is written from right to left instead of left to right!
Let's learn how to say hello and goodbye in Arabic!
To say hello in Arabic you would say mrhaban, sounds like mah-dr-hah-ben 文A
In the Arabic letters it looks like this: مرحبًا
To say goodbye you say mae alsalamati, sounds like mah-ah-l-sah-lah-mah-ti 文A
In the Arabic letters it looks like this: مع السلامة!
(from: wikipedia - lebanese academy of sciences)
Hindi: नमस्ते (Namaste), अलविदा (Alavida)
Swahili: Jambo, Hujambo, Habari, Mambo, Shikamoo
Russian: Привет (privet), Здравствуй (Zdravstvuy), Пока (poka), до свидания (do svidaniya)
Norwegian: Hei, Hallo, Ha det, Ha det brah
Greek: Γειά σου (Geiá sou), Χαίρετε (Chairete), Αντίο (Antío)
ASL: Hello and Goodbye
Italian: Ciao, arrivederci
German: Hallo, Auf Wiedersehen
Spanish: Hola! Adiós!
French: Bonjour! Au Revoir!
